Vietnamese students who are studying Japanese

Abstract

In the era of internationalization and globalization, words of foreign origin have  been rapidly and increasingly used in daily life by Japanese people. However, these foreignisms are not paid much attention in teaching Japanese. The Japanese language textbooks or Japanese language centers have been focusing only on their writing and pronunciation ignoring important information such as their oorigin, articulation transformation, meaning conversion, etc. This article presents the findings of a research on learning attitude and the dificulties in learning foreignism of Japanese majored students at a university in Hanoi. Thus, the initial recommendations and suggestions are proposed for teaching foregnisms for Vietnamese learners of Japanese.